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Good First Issues
Discover beginner-friendly open-source issues and build your verified contributor portfolio
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A platform that helps developers find curated, beginner-friendly GitHub issues and track their contributions with maintainer velocity scoring.
What it is

Good First Issues is a discovery engine for beginner-friendly open-source contributions on GitHub. It provides curated, high-quality issues suitable for developers starting their open-source journey, eliminating noise through careful curation. The platform tracks maintainer review turnaround speed and provides live PR tracking so contributors can see how quickly maintainers respond. Users earn contributor XP and can build a verified portfolio of their contributions, helping them demonstrate their open-source involvement to potential employers or collaborators.
What it is built with
- Curated beginner-friendly GitHub issues
- Maintainer review turnaround speed tracking
- Live PR tracking
- Contributor XP earning
- Verified contributor portfolio
- Zero-noise discovery engine
- Continuous maintainer velocity scoring
Pricing
Pricing model: Free
Good First Issues metrics
| Metric | Value |
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| Domain Rating | 0 no change since last check |
| Trust Flow | 0 no change since last check |
| Citation Flow | 21 no change since last check |
| Referring domains | 10 no change since last check |
| External backlinks | 19 no change since last check |
Ahrefs Domain Rating benchmarked 2 Nov 2026, rebuilt 2 Nov 2026. Majestic benchmarked 2 Nov 2026, rebuilt 2 Nov 2026. Link data built by Majestic. Trust Flow, Citation Flow and Topical Trust Flow are trademarks of Majestic-12 Ltd.
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| Domain age | 2 months |
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| Expires | |
| Registrar | HOSTINGER operations, UAB |
| DNSSEC | Not signed |
Good First Issues after-launch build log
Since Good First Issues launched on Maker Launches on 2 November 2026, these are the figures we have tracked.
- Domain Rating (Ahrefs)
- 0
- First measured 2 Nov 2026
- Referring domains (Majestic)
- 10
- First measured 2 Nov 2026
Day 0 since launch. Next receipt: day 30, 2 Dec 2026. We show what changed, not what caused it: many things affect these numbers. Nothing here is estimated.
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